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A "glass-ceiling" effect for immigrants in the Italian labour market?

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - 2012

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the … human capital, for immigrants and natives, in explaining inter-occupational and intra-occupational earnings progression … mainly driven by intra-occupational earnings progression. Moreover, and contrary to what is observed for natives, we detect …

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Immigrant wages in the Spanish labour market: does the origin of human capital matter?

Sanromá, Esteban; Ramos, Raúl; Simón, Hipólito - 2009

The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...

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The evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada, 1980-2005

Boudarbat, Brahim; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - 2010

We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that returns to education increased substantially for Canadian men, contrary to conclusions reached previously. Most of this rise took place in the early 1980s and since 1995....

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Do Markets Favor Women?s Human Capital More than Planners?

Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004

Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002;...

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Human Capital Spill-Overs Within the Workplace

Battu, Harminder; Belfield, Clive R.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2001

An individual?s human capital has a strong influence on earnings. Yet individual, worker-level estimations of earnings … worker?workplace dataset to estimate the effect on own earnings of co-workers? education. Our results, using the 1998 UK … Workplace Employee Relations Survey, show significant effects. Own earnings premia fall slightly, but there is an independent …

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Human Capital Policy

Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James Joseph - 2003

This paper considers alternative policies for promoting skill formation that are targeted to different stages of the life cycle. We demonstrate the importance of both cognitive and noncognitive skills that are formed early in the life cycle in accounting for racial, ethnic and family background...

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Latent variables and propensity score matching : a simulation study with application to data from the Programme for International Student Assessment in Poland

Jakubowski, Maciej - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 48 (2015) 3, pp. 1287-1325

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Schooling choices: preferences, discount rates, and rates of return

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Ophem, Hans van - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 25 (2000) 1, pp. 15-34

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Individual heterogeneity in the returns to schooling : instrumental variables quantile regression using twins data

Arias, Omar; Hallock, Kevin F.; Sosa Escudero, Walter - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 26 (2001) 1, pp. 7-40

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Earnings differences between Chinese and Indian wage earners, 1987 - 2004

Bargain, Olivier; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2008

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …

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